Kip began screaming and thrashing. The man who had stabbed her was laughing, and staring down at them. He said something Liz couldn't make out before he gave her an awful smile and ran off. Queen saw him run off, and immediately started to pursue him. Liz wanted to help him, but she couldn't. Liz was stuck there in shock. The only thing she could do was sit there and listen to Kips horrific screams. A small tear fell down Liz's cheek, as she crawled out from underneath Kip who had fallen on her, to the side of her. She removed the syringe from Kips bicep, and removed her mask, and jacket. Her arms were swelling, the muscles becoming more visible, and more defined, to the point of Where Liz could see her veins clearly. Liz didn't know what to do. She looked around, searching for help, as Kip continued to thrash, but none was found. Roy was still down with undoubtedly broken ribs, and Queen had left. Liz's shaky hands reached to her ear for her com.
"H-help..." Liz's voice was trembling.
Tony was the first to respond to her cry. "What's wrong Lizzy? Are you hurt? Where are you?"
"It's Kip... she... she..." Liz couldn't continue.
"Wait. What happened to Kip? Is she okay?" Clint asked.
"She... She was injected. She saved me..."
"Liz where are Queen, Harper, and Diggle?" Clint asked.
"Roy is down, Queen ran off... and John... he never came up..." Liz began to sob harder.
"Oliver and Sara went ahead of me to get Slade. I stayed behind." John said over com's.
"Okay. Liz I'm coming. Everyone else clear out." Clint ordered.
Clint ran into the room, Queen coming in from the other door, only seconds after Clint.
"Sara!" Queen said kneeling down next to Kip.
"Come on Kip, stay with me." Clint said checking her pulse while trying to hold her down, as she continued to thrash. "Queen. Help me get her up. Liz, can you handle Roy?"
Liz gave a meek nod, "I think so…"
"Look, Liz if you can't that's fine, I'll call Tony, and he can come and get you, and we can take care of this. But if you're up to this, i need to know, because we're fighting an army of evil super soldiers and none of our weapons are working. So, are you up to this?"
Liz again gave a meek nod, but instead of a hesitant I think so, Liz said " Yes."
Clint nodded back, before leading the four, and an invalid Keep out of the Queen Consolidated building.
Tony's Point Of View
A ruggedly handsome, genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, a senior citizen, an assassin who specializes in strangling people with her thighs, a norse mythology, the sister of the handsome philanthropist, Legolas, green Katniss, scary ex military dude, turned bodyguard, turned vigilante, and Robin Hood in a hoodie, stumbled in to the Arrow cave. Kip was hanging from Barton and Queens shoulders, and Liz was helping Roy limp in. Bruce and Felicity were turned around looking at something and taking.
"Felicity, please tell me you have an antidote!" Oliver yelled, stumbling down the stairs.
"We just came up with it! It's a prototype. We have no clue if it will work!"
"I don't care just give it to me!" Clint said taking the syringe out of Banner's hands.
"Barton wait! We don't know what the side effects are! For all we know it could kill her!" Bruce said.
"I don't care!" Clint and Oliver yelled at the same time.
Barton stabbed the syringe into Kips arm. She continued to writhe for several moments, until she fell still. Tony looked over to Steve. His brow was furrowed, and as he looked over at Tony, he almost seemed scared. Liz was in the back corner of the room, Roy hugging her to his chest. Her shoulders began to shake violently. Tony began to fear the worst. He walked over to Kip before glancing and Clint, as if to say, "May I?" Clint gave him a curt nod, and Tony pressed his middle and index finger to her neck. He felt her pulse, and sighed with relief. "She has a pulse" Tony said. "But it's weak. Probably from fatigue. But I'm sure she'll be okay with in a couple hours."
"It was just a prototype… We really have no idea if it will work or not." Bruce said pushing his glasses up."
"It will." Oliver said.
"Oliver… We all want to believe that it will work but we need to be prepared for the worst…" Felicity was cut off by Oliver.
"IT WILL WORK!" He shouted.
Tony looked back, seeing Liz was crying harder.
"Okay!" Steve yelled. "Everyone needs to shut up! Freaking out isn't going to help any one! Felicity, Banner. Keep working on the antidote. The rest of us are going to do everything we can to help them, and figure out how to handle Slade. Got it?"
"No! No way! You are all leaving now! We are not working with you! We will take care of this on our own! Now leave!" Oliver said.
"Really Queen? You really have this handled? Because I'm looking around, and this doesn't look handled to me. You need us, and we're helping whether you like it or not!" Tony said.
"Are you insane Stark? Your sister is the reason we're in the whole mess right now!"
"Do you think i wanted that to happen?" Liz had now ripped away from Harper, and was marching over to Queen.
"Why else would you have gone after SLade like that?"
"Because I didn't know that was Slade! And i thought i could take him!"
"Please! You're just a kid! You couldn't touch Slade eve if you wanted to!"
"Why don't we test that theory Queen." Liz's voice was calm, and quiet. Almost exactly like Natasha's before she tried to kill either Tony or Clint.
Liz and Oliver were slowly moving towards each other when a voice said " Stop it you two."
Liz's Point Of View
"You wanna test that theory?" Liz's hands were balled into fists, as she stepped closer to Queen. Queen gave her a nasty smirk and took a step towards her. Liz was sure he was going to strike, and if he didn't she knew she would. Liz was preparing to punch, when she heard a voice.
"Stop it you two." The voice was tied together within a string of tired and strained pants. Liz looked over to her right, and sitting up on the table was Kip. Her forehead was dotted with sweat, and she was panting, obviously having trouble breathing. The effort of sitting up obviously straining. Everyone stared in shock. The antidote worked. Kip swung her legs off the table, and tried to stand up, but almost collapsed. Clint and Oliver rushed to her side, both catching her before she hit the ground. They sent each other glares that were the closest thing to daggers Liz had ever seen. "Are you kidding me? Still? God… Don't you all see what's wrong? We got our butts handed to us out there because you guys can't function as one team! Why can't you guys get that through your heads?" Kip stopped, more sweat collecting on her forehead, and chest. This effort of talking was obviously taxing on her body. She took a deep breath, trying to stop panting before continuing. "Dig, Roy, Oliver, Felicity. This is our home! This is the home we swore to protect, and guess what! This home? It's getting destroyed! And the people in it? The good people? They're dying! People are dying, and we aren't doing anything to save them." Kip wiped her forehead off. "Steve, Tony, Nat, Clint, Thor, Bruce, even you Liz. You are the Avengers! You are Earth's Mightiest freaking Heros! You swore to protect the world!" Kip stopped once again. Her face as beginning to play, and she was sweating now more than ever. "You all swore to protect something. Why can't you all come together to protect the same thing? And I'm going to go out and fight for this city, whether any of you are with me or not. The price of this city's freedom od high, but it's a price I'm willing to pay."
"That's a great line. I may steal it some time." Steve said. Kip gave him a weak and strained smile. He smiled back before saying "I'm in."
"Me too." Dig said. "It's good to have you back Sara."
Felicity and Bruce quickly agreed, along with Roy. After a sharp death glare, Tony agreed. Liz gave Kip a skeptical look, but with hesitation agreed. That left the difficult Trio.
"Okay." Natasha finally said.
Kip gave her a grateful smile before looking at Oliver and Clint. "Guys… Look, I need you two to get along and work together for the next 48 hours, and then you can kill each other, if you want. Please just give me 48 hours."
"Sara…"
"Oliver please."
"Fine."
"Thank you. Clint?"
"You owe me."
"Noted. Will you help?"
"Yes."
"Tell us what to do Kip." Steve said.
"No! No! No! Absolutely not! She needs rest!" Felicity said.
"Felicity…"
"Kip, she's right." Banner said.
"Alright, but we can still plan." Kip said sitting down.
"Tell us what to do." Oliver said.
"Steve. You and Oliver are both natural leaders, but Oliver, you know Starling. Felicity, I need you too find all places Slade has attacked, and triangulate them to find the place he will attack next. Steve, I want you working team exercises with everyone. Oliver, you are stratagy. Bruce, I want you making as much of that antidote as you can. Everyone else, I want you working on team exercises. Listen to Steve. Steve, you have three hours, until Oliver has some thing together, so get to work. After we have a plan, we work on our attack strategy. Clear?" Kip asked, still pale, sweating, and gasping, but her confidence was clear in her orders. Every one gave her a nod, and broke off. Felicity went over to her computer, her fingers typing furiously, Bruce began copying the antidote that had been used on Kip, and every one else broke off with Steve.
3 Hours Later
"I got something!" Felicity yelled.
Liz wiped the sweat from her face before following everyone over to Felicity's computer. "Slade has attacked in 5 locations, all around the edge of Starling. From my best guess, he's trying to draw us out to the Glades, right next to the canyon, the earthquake machine created last year."
"So what does that mean?" Liz asked.
"It means," Kip said grunting as she climbed off the table. "That we need to meet them there. We are going to stop them at the source. Oliver, do you have a plan read?"
"I do now." He said. Everyone looked at him. "The area is mostly empty. There are a couple buildings that are still standing. Felicity, I need you working the computers here, calling out Slades locations. Barton, Roy, Sara, I want you on the three building tops. Stark, I want you controlling the perimeter. Banner, I need you to cause as much damage as you can. Stark, you need to make new arrows for myself, Barton, Roy, and Sara. Diggle, you will lead Rogers, Romanoff, and Stark's sister around the Glades, helping out with who ever calls out on coms. Everybody clear?" With a quick nod, everybody split up, and began suiting up.